10 Facts About Tin can

Steel can, tin can, tin, steel packaging, or can is a container for the distribution or storage of goods, made of thin metal.

Cans Tin can be fabricated with separate slip-on, or friction fit covers and with covers attached by hinges.

Aluminium is less costly than tin-plated steel but offers the same resistance to corrosion in addition to greater malleability, resulting in ease of manufacture; this gave rise to the two-piece can, where all but the top of the can is simply stamped out of a single piece of aluminium, rather than laboriously constructed from three pieces of steel.

Older Tin can numbers are often expressed as single digits, their contents being calculated for room-temperature water as approximately eleven ounces, twenty ounces, thirty-two ounces fifty-eight ounces and one-hundred-ten ounces .

Thinning the walls of a two-piece Tin can by passing it through circular dies is called 'ironing'.

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Not until several years later, after Tin can manufacturers started using thinner metal sheets, were any dedicated Tin can openers developed.

Steel can can be recycled again and again without loss of quality, however for the food grade steel it's required to remove a tin from the scrap metal, which is done by way of electrochemistry: the tin is leached from a high pH solution at low negative voltage.

Recycling a single can saves the equivalent power for one laundry load, 1 hour of TV or 24 hours of lighting .

Evidence of tin impurities can be indicated by color, as in the case of pears, but lack of color change does not guarantee that a food is not tainted with tin.

The inside of the can is coated with an epoxy coating, in an attempt to prevent food or beverage from coming into contact with the metal.